The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 210

“No, it is mine,” cried the lame one, “for I ran off with the ring.”

Who acts: credit, lame one, I · What happens: be, cry, run off · To what, where: mine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (credit, lame one, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 mine	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mine	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mine	cop
6	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cried	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mine	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 mine	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ran	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 ran	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 ran	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ran	nsubj
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 ran	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 ring	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ring	det
21	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ran	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	credit	mine		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the lame one			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run off in a quote	past	I		with the ring	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with ring=Material

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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